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The AP Style Manual, a/the leading source for US journalism at least, says <word> <space> <dash> <space> <word> Outside of journalism, usually there is no p
by mmooss 2y ago
The AP Style Manual, a/the leading source for US journalism at least, says
<word> <space> <dash> <space> <word>
Outside of journalism, usually there is no padding, only,
<word> <dash> <word>
I'm with you: For searches, the spaces make the words easier to parse. Those rules predate computers, I would guess.
- lxgr 2y ago> <word> <dash> <word> That one I’d usually parse as a hyphen, as in e.g. well-known. “Word space dash space word” is much clearer, in my view. > The AP Style Manual, a/the leading source for US journalism One of the things I can easily get away with by not being a US journalist :)
- stouset 2y agoIt’s quite hard to mistake an em dash for a hyphen in a proportional font. self-fulfilling self—fulfilling One of these looks very, very wrong.
- johnisgood 2y agoI agree, although I still prefer spaces between —.
- mattl 2y agoChicago Manual of Style has no spaces, so there’s some variation at least.
- mmooss 2y agoCMOS is not journalism, so it's not variation from the GP?
- mattl 2y agoA wider number of people use either of them. Every place I’ve used used CMOS which I now use with others.
- ghaff 2y agoCompany I used to work for used AP for things like press releases and, I think, official blog posts and Chicago plus a couple different tech style guides for everything else. Basically, we didn’t like some things in AP but we wanted to make it easy for journalists to copy/paste.